The Morning Stream - TMS 2333: CMOS Smoothie

Episode Date: August 11, 2022

Both Hunky and Dory. Galactica Hatch. Cruller on the Craft Table. Confirmed: We've Got Space Junk! that's how you get batmites! Vegas Mob Dropbox. Everyone Gets Nothing From Burger King. Ripping Off Chevy Chase's Bit. Howling Hound Hover Hunt. Do you follow him?! No! He's dead! Want to know about America? Don't live in America. (Aqualung) Batman on a park bench! MuckBang Bus. Bahhhhhhhhhhhhh call me bye. Chasing Amy with Amy. Call Now and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, both Hunky and Dory. Galactica Hatch. Croller on the craft table. Confirmed. We've got space junk. That's how you get batmines. That's how you get bat mites. Vegas Mob Dropbox.

Everyone gets nothing from Burger King. Ripping off Chevy Chase's bit. Howling Hound Hover Hunt. Do you follow him? No, he's dead. Want to know about America? Don't live in America. Man on a park bench.

Muckbang Bus. Buh. Call me, bye. Chasing Amy with Amy. Call now and more on this episode. of the morning stream. Nothing like a bag of Doritos Coal Ranch. Nothing like it. Be low.

Their milkshakes bring all the yard. This is the morning stream. Good morning and welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Thursday, August 11th, 2020. I'm Scott. He's Brian. Hi, Brian. I am. You are and they are.

We're all here now. Exactly. Hey, this person here. Chevy Chase used to say, and I'm not. Yeah, that's right. He did. We don't, we're not ripping off his bit, we promise. We're just sort of.

No, gosh, no. One of the last people I think we want to piss off is Chevy Chase. Probably because, not that he'd do anything to us, but just because, you know, he's kind of a dick. He's a little slower. He's a little slower now. He couldn't do much. I don't think he could do much. This lady here just wanted to share this.

Nothing like a bag of Doritos, Coor Ranch. Okay, so this girl, I follow her on TikTok, her entire account is that every time but with something else. So it'd be like, nothing like a bag of skittles. Yeah, or whatever it is. then she eats it and then goes nothing like it and she's got this like huge following as a result of that and once again i've decided that we did it all wrong we don't know what we're doing all we had to do is a video saying nothing like it and we'd have like a million followers yeah yeah frick we don't know and you're doing it too you're following her because you want to see what

things she says there's nothing like it for every i'm i'm part of the problem you know so there's that Wow. Wow. Anyway. I don't know. Someone asked in the chat if it was Tina's voice. Nothing like an episode of Blackish. The good news is that stuff will be perpetually streaming.

So even when the show ends, I'll still be able to, Tina and I'll still be able to talk about watching an episode of Blackish. Oh, speaking of episodes, I lied yesterday and was confused. I thought I had one episode a look. yeah, I had two. Oh, you've two left. I have two left. So I watched what I thought was the last one last night. And it really felt like the last one, kind of. Oh, sure, because of the right, the smoke monster. Yeah, the smoke. Yeah. And, you know, what's his name in the old 70s outfit?

I love Richard E. Grant. Oh, my God. He's great. He is great. He's a huge deal on that. But anyway, that's what I watched. So now I have, now I truly have one more. I was so looking forward to today coming in, just walk and sauntering in here and going, hey, Brian, I watched the rest of the Loki heard. You were going to be so proud. And still, couldn't muster up an additional 30 minutes. I think that last episode's an hour, though, isn't it? Oh, it might be. Yeah, there is a lot.

They pack a lot in there. Yeah. So it was like I had to watch it. And we did watch it a second time after, of course, the couch party. I watched, I binge the rest of the show. It only took me a few days, a couple days. So wait, you re-binged it in the time that we started. And I'm still have an episode left.

Oh, yeah, yeah. I re-binged it, Scott, started binging two more shows, one I watch with Tina and one I watch without. Wow. And, yeah. Wow. That's a lot. That's how long it's been.

That's how long it's been. That's a lot. All right. Well, you do what you do. So, look at this. There's both of them I can't wait to talk about on recommendals. I don't know which one we're going to finish first. One, though, I do know.

We're going to finish the drama first because it is so damn good. Really? Really. Yes. Yes. Oh, I could. I don't even want to do like a, I'll only tell you this. It stars a young actor by the name of Franz Ferdinand.

I'm not even going to do that because I don't want anybody to look it up and try and guess what I'm going to talk about, but I'm so excited about it. Now I can think about how Franz Ferdinand is somehow involved in your movie. Anyway, okay, question. I need advice from the Tadpool, people at home, whoever you want to email me, at this, whatever we'll figure it out. But we got an issue going on. Carter is in the chat.

knows about this as well. It kind of freaking her dog out. We got what I can only describe as is a 24-7 howler dog somewhere in the neighborhood that is constantly just going, like that. Some sort of Basset or Beagle or something, something banging. Yes. And especially during the day, like business hours, this dog is losing it, which makes

me think the owner got a dog, leaves it at home, doesn't feed it or do anything with it for eight hours and this dog is just miserable in a cage howling to the moon that's my thinking i could be wrong but it happens all the time now i'm not necessarily hearing it all the time i was going to try to record it just to see you know what it sounded like on the show but i couldn't i didn't get around to it um yeah but uh her dog right uh her dog ripley ripley the the the ellen ripley the the the wimeriner right she's just always on edge now just always her head'll pop up you know you can tell she can hear something. Yeah.

Or she'll suddenly go, if you've ever had one of those dogs, you go from zero to a hundred. They just erupt, like spontaneously erupt into noise. Rainer acts like she doesn't hear it, which is odd because she hears everything. But she's like,

she's tuning this one out for whatever reason. And then the new little dog doesn't care. She just wants to bite things and chew your foot and roll around and be dumb. So anyway, I guess what I'm asking is, In a situation like this, if you actually are worried that the dog is in trouble or in a bad situation, do we do something about that? Like, what do we do?

Oh, like, if you think the dog is being abused and making this noise because it's being abused or anything like that. Or just neglected mainly is what I'm worried about, you know? You call the welfare. Not welfare. I looked at the chat. You call like the animal control or whatever. Yeah, animal control. Yeah.

Do I do that? And if I do that, does it, I don't want him to go over there and find. find out, oh, he's just a howly dog. There's somebody here with him all day, and it's no big deal. Like, should I just stay on my side of the line, not worry about it? You can do it. I think you can do something like that anonymously and just, you know, there's nothing, you know, what's the harm, right? They find out the dog is fine. Great, the dog is fine. But you don't want to, you know, hear about the dog dying because, oh, left it outside and the heat for full day and it just didn't, it ran out of water and blah, blah, blah. Yeah, that's probably the best, the side to err on to be that because the other side is just avoiding confrontation with the neighbor. I mean, I don't even know who it is.

Like, they could be a block away for all I know. You know, confrontation with the neighbor just means Kim will take a casserole over a month afterwards and everything will be both hunky and dory. Yeah, hunky and dory first, then hunky, but kind of the same thing. Yeah, you're right. I don't know. I don't know. Carter, you know what? You make this decision.

You live here right now. You get to make the call. You want to call the who-ha and have them go check, or do you want to let it ride? It's up to you. You need to, she just said that you guys are having a hard time, like you said, triangulating, figuring out which house it is. Yeah. Maybe you hook up with the drone guy and see if the drone guy. Oh, yeah.

And that's the way to patch up things with the drone guy, you know? Right, exactly. He's like, hey, do you hear that dog howling? And do you want to, you want to, you know, come over, have a, I'll buy you a beer and I'll have a, diet dog or a duct to pepper zero and we'll we'll see if we can drone over and figure out where this dog is yeah i could do that i still have like tom merit beer in the fridge something he left here oh i'm sure it's still good then yeah i'm sure it holds forever and uh he'll just we'll give him that delicious aged ipa not really a thing is it no no beer doesn't really age that's good point

anyway he may he may or whatever he would probably the way i'd have to handle it is say hey maybe take a break from spy in my yard and then drive that over there and film somebody else and then Kim could bring in the casserole and we're all set. Yeah, aren't you the guy who threw something at my drone?

Mm-hmm. I just know we have somebody in the chat who's like they work for some you know local pet thing or they know how animal control handles this stuff or whatever. Somebody tell me, ironically, it'll probably stop by the time I go.

We check next door, nobody's talking about it. nobody has said anything about it okay no and we usually get something like if we're curious about what's going on about something we check that next door and there's some somebody is saying something about whatever it is like that kid getting run over next door was like you know all of on fire that night but this guy or this dog nothing so I don't know maybe maybe you know this is a work at home problem we wouldn't even hear this if I wasn't in if I was in an office eight hours a day right but that doesn't make it better No, no, no, I'm not saying it makes it better, but I'm saying that's why no one's talking about it, because they're all gone.

Oh, I seriously, they're all back at work. Yeah, because they're not hearing it. We don't really hear it at night. So I think it's a daytime thing. I don't know. I said 24-7, but it's really more like, I don't know, working out in 9 to 5. What a way to make a little. Oh, business hours.

Yeah, during business hours. Yeah, business hours only. Maybe it's a good time to take Rainer for a walk when you start hearing the noise and see if you can kind of pinpoint it by just walking, you know. Walking where she starts. the block in the direction you think it is and sing yeah we could do that that's not a bad idea i'll try that today there you go i walked her this morning but it wasn't um uh there were there no howling in the morning so i don't my guess is it was like seven so they probably hadn't left yet so i'll do it after the show this is all a good idea coming up next on film sack the howling yeah the

howling we ever do the howling no no we've never done the howling oh we should do that i can that i can say with confidence because i've never seen the howling i think think i've seen it i thought it was with you guys i guess not i i'm all in let's do the howling this i've also never seen cat people i've never seen cat people either we should do that yeah i want to see cat people this this halloween we should yeah we should start picking now because we want good picks for the month of october oh this uh look at this this uh the howling stars d cujo's own d wallace d wallace d wallace oh my gosh wow finally et's own d wallace she had the this amazing career of E.T.

Whoa, she's great in this. I loved her as the mom. And then everything else was crap. All crap. Critters in 1986. And the Hills Have Eyes. What the heck, man. That actually came first.

That was the first of those movies. Oh, Hills Have Eyes? Yeah. The Hills have eyes. The Hills. We should see that for film section. I hear the remake. Oh, that's got that, that dude.

Yeah, the weird Googly eye guy. The weird Googly eye dude. Yeah. Yeah. Right. And that's the West Craven joint. I follow that dude on TikTok. And he seems like the nicest guy.

He's so freaky looking. But he seems so nice. He's like, hey, everybody. Today I was having some tea. And I had a thought about it. And I'm like, you're supposed to be a cannibal freak who's like ready to eat me and stab me. He was, wasn't he toxic Avenger, too? Or no, was that somebody else?

I think he just looked like him. I don't think that was him. Sad to say, that's probably it. Yeah. And I think the Toxic Avenger. is mostly makeup, whereas this guy just got a weird face. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, good point. But he reminds me of like, who's the guy who played Jaws?

Oh, Richard Keel. Richard Keel. There's like a Richard Keel valve. Do you follow him on TikTok's God? No, he died. He's gone. Yeah, nobody puts him on TikTok. I followed him at the Star Trek experience with a Star Trek event at the Hilton years ago when I was selling Andrew Allen's CD and Richard Keele was there

signing autographs and I followed him on his rascal. Didn't we? I'm pretty sure you and I, well, I was there that year. I brought the kids, but we were there and we I'm pretty sure you and I stood in a corner and talked about how nobody was at his table and it was sad. There are people everywhere except at Richard Kiel's

table, which is impossible not to notice because it's Richard freaking Kiel. It's Richard freaking Kiel. I mean, I, you know, if I had something, you guess it was because it was a Star Trek thing, and he's more known for James Bond stuff. Did he do a Star Trek? I don't know if he was in Star Trek. Is there a Star Trek connection?

I'm looking it up. We don't have Randy here, so I'll do this one. Yeah. Jeez. Well, at least... Let's see if I could do it before the Tadpool doesn't. I'll bet the Tad Poole is going to be faster. They're always faster.

They're always faster. They're weird that way. Even with a seven-second delay, they're usually on it. Let's see. No, there is nothing trek on Richard Kiel's IMDB. Yeah, see, there you go. Not even TOS. Oh.

So, I think he did play the Hulk in the Incredible Hulk TV series for one scene only. Oh my gosh, I want to see that. Uncredited, one scene only. Can we get that somewhere? I want to see that. Yeah, actually, I bet we can. Let's see. Yeah.

But also, Richard Kiel was there, or not Richard Kiel. Richard Hatch was there. And I remember thinking, why is he? he here. This is Battlestar Galactica guy. Why is he in a Star Trek thing? And I think it just turned out that these guys would go around to these conventions regardless. It didn't matter. Whether they were in the stuff or not, they got their

$40 signed photos. That's what you do. Right. Yes. I can only find that is not, that's not it, is it? I don't know, is it? Just doesn't.

Yes, Chad. Richard Keel also dead. You are correct. or Richard The other guy Richard Hatch also dead Yeah they all died Not the one from Survivor But the

No The wrong Richard Hatch past Galactica Hatch Yeah Galactica Hatch My gosh I really wish This was a better picture But this seems to be the only one

I can find of Of Richard Kiel As the Incredible Hulk And it's like a An old Bill Big Spee Black and White photo still weird okay so what he looks he looks more like an umpalump like a big tall umpalump but then he does the hulk but that's only because we're seeing a black and white photo and

those eyebrows yeah why did the hulk always grow more hair than bill bixby had at the time do you know what i mean like why is the yeah i feel like the hulk comics he always had shorter hair when he became the hulk but in this case it's like hey what if we got a full-on elvis what It would be like, you know, Grua. There's another shot, kind of a top-down shot of Richard Keel as the Hulk. Oh, this is in color. Look at this. Yeah, it's tiny.

I don't think this is it. I don't think this is Richard Keel. Might be, but. Oh. It kind of looks like, like back in the day, Glenn Campbell. Yeah, I was going to say. I guess that, I can see it. I can see that as Richard Kiel.

Really? Okay. Yeah. I mean, I would have never, if you just said trivia about, did Richard Kiel ever play A, this, A, B, the Hulk? I would have just said, no, I wouldn't have chosen B. I had no idea. Yeah. That's very odd. All right. Well, we learned something today. Two of the people in this, so here's one last photo. It's Thor, Stan Lee, and the Hulk from that Hulk movie that featured Thor. Oh, yeah.

and two of those people look like they're totally into it and one of them does not one of them looks like he'd rather be doing anything else and it isn't stanley and it ain't loufragno luferigno looking like he's into it stands like whatever i'm into it hey i created both of these guys these guys are my guys and thor is like uh yeah don't don't eat my cruller sitting there on the craft table please yeah going back into porn after this Well, all right. We learned something there we go. It was a nice deep dive into The Hulk. We asked for people in Luxembourg to kind of ping us about the whole thing where they had the most space trash, where they had 40. Oh, right. Yes. I heard from Raul in Luxembourg.

Okay. And he indeed confirms, we have space junk. That's basically his whole email. He says we had space junk. Oh, confirmed, we have space junk. Like he'd... That was it. I like that the citizens of Luxembourg are like, you know, kept abreast of all of the junk that they're throwing into space.

Like, today on the news, Luxembourg Daily News, we've thrown more junk into space. What do they speak? I'm going to sound like a dumb American here. What's a Luxembourg? Okay, I'm not, I'm not sure either. I'm going to guess either German or Swiss in Luxembourg because I don't know of a Luxembourgian. Languages of Luxembourg. Okay, here we go.

All right. Three official languages. Okay. Oh, my gosh, this is going to make you surprised. Of course, French. D. French, German, and the national language of Luxembourgish. Luxembourgish.

Okay. See, dumb Americans don't know crap about Europe, yet they can name every president we've ever had. Luxembourgish. I want to hear that. I wonder if I can't. Luxembourgish. I hope maybe Raoul can help us with that. Maybe he can record a little Luxembourgish.

Let's see if I can get someone to... Oh, here we go. Luxembourgish language. Okay. We're going to hear somebody say it. All right, okay. Okay, here we go. I don't know who this is, but...

Wayne, it's not playing it. I'm Mark Schreter. I come in, I was Lezburg. I was the Lezboeer. And if I'm going to go, to talk to him to him must.

All right. So, there you go. you got a grande latte no milk it just sounds like interesting all right yeah yeah i course right germanic sounding sounds like it came from a the germanic root which you know would make sense of germany's also or germany germans also spoken right anyway right interesting that's really in portuguese wow yeah thanks raoul if i'm even saying that right i feel like i'm not brian why was there why was batman's costume on a park bench by where you'd live?

Why? Dude, I'd like to know. So here's the story. Did some lifting yesterday, drove around. You know, lifting. Really got to figure out a better term for that. Oh, you want to play a little? Oh, yeah, yeah.

We got this. Of course, here we go. Be courteous and obey traffic regulation. All right. Tell me about your lifting. All right. So I'll even tell you about the story that kind of led up to the switch. There was a little bit of coincidence.

Maybe not really irony, coincidence. And sadly, it didn't. There was no way to kind of make everything go full circle. But one of my pickups was at a plasma donation place and picked up a woman there, and she told me all about the process and the money you can make donating plasma. And she says, yeah, you get about $100, but there's another place that does $1,000, depending on your blood type. But the problem is that you can't go to both places.

If they find out you are double dipping, then you will get banned and put on a list that all the plasmid donation places look at and you'll be barred from all of them. You won't be able to donate. Oh, my gosh. Ever? Like, you're done, ever for good. You're on the list. Yeah, you're done.

You're not donating anything anymore. So, and she told me about, like, yeah, what you're supposed to eat beforehand. They give you, like, a little list and a pamphlet. And the first time you go there, it's like an extra 30 minutes to sign up and all that stuff. And how, I thought this was fascinating, too. if you're on medications, it'll turn your plasma a different color. And I'm not just saying, like, it'll be, because normally it's like an orangish red, but if you're on medications, it'll turn freaking green.

Like, it's not even like a close color. It is like a, you know, it's weird. Okay. Anyway, so we talked about that, and then we talked about COVID. And she's, well, actually, you know, I found out about COVID really early. And I said, oh, really, how'd you do that? She's like, well, have you ever heard of muckbang? Oh, my gosh.

And I said, yes. And she's like, well, I watch a lot of Chinese Twitch streamers on muckbang. And, you know, there's this woman who does nothing but eat vegetables and da-da-da-da. And then Twitch recommended another video of a, well, she was saying, I don't know tell me if it's Korean, But she was saying she was watching a Chinese lady doing muckbang. Could have been Korean. Who knows? Yeah, yeah.

I guess it is Korean. It is supposed to be, mukbang is specifically Korean. The phrase is Korean, but the woman she said she was watching was Chinese. Yeah, and I've seen plenty of. Which is relevant because of the- And I've seen Chinese muck-bang videos where the people are explicitly Chinese. So I don't know that they, I don't know if it's Korean only.

But anyway. Right. So anyway, so she's watching this. And then it recommended another Chinese, a muckbang person, a guy who proceeded to eat a live bat

and then it directed her from there to a video about a and again, you know, we know that there's auspicious circumstances of how the virus came to be.

There's the, oh, somebody ate a bat and got the blah, blah, blah. No, that's not the, you know, I'm not saying that that's why that's where, COVID came from. However, she was watching

a MacPing video of a guy eating a bat. And then from there, it directed her to a live news stream that she was watching about this pandemic that it just started, like in 2019, when it started in China. Yeah. And

so I knew about it beforehand. I said, well, thanks, Jessica. You could have let us all know. I really appreciate it. And then she got to talking about how you know, eating sea moss, like she makes seamoss and watermelon smoothies for her

and her kid, and that's why neither of them ever got COVID, and I'm like, okay, this sounds like it's taking a fun turn. Yeah. And, uh, come on. Not C-M-O-S, but S-E-A-M-O-S-C-M-S. C-M-A-M-S.

Yeah. I know. Because C-M-M-M-S is a, like, what? It's a hacking term or a programming term. Seamoss is like your chip on your motherboard that remembers everything. That's right. So if you're going to change it out the battery and your Seamoss, it's because it died and it doesn't remember what drives you have or what the time is or all that stuff.

There we go. So she started talking about that. She started talking about a holistic doctor and all this stuff and finally get to her apartment building and drop her off. All right, thanks, Jessica. I wasn't expecting to learn anything on this ride. But hey, thank you very much. Okay, bye. she hops out and then I'm pulling out of her parking lot and I look over and there's this bench like a bus bench on the side and like what is that sitting on the bus bench and then the the side of the arm catches my eye and it's the three little little you know jagged angled spikes that come off of the side of Batman's uniform yeah it's the bat bat sleeves wait a minute so I actually back up a little bit no cars

behind me thank goodness and take pictures of it and say you know what what's the story here uh yeah i put it up on you can't wear your batman costume on the bus oh okay i'll just take it off here thanks yeah this is the entire the whole get-up except the cape i think right and the mass or the cow well maybe the cow was there i don't know it would be hanging off the back so i wasn't that's true certainly wasn't about to uh this is got like the padded muscle stuff and everything yeah this is the right it's got the the built-in abs and chest uh pads and stuff like that weird it's missing a logo which i thought was interesting on the chest oh that's a really good point yeah i don't know if that's uh it's a ninja ninja batman or what um anyway somebody said

oh you should have grabbed it and you know put it on and then and then i wanted to say uh no that's that's how you get bat mites do you want bat mites because that's how you get bat mites well it's your comment in the the the our text exchange that made me laugh so here's what he's brian sent these pictures and i went the batman and he says be on the lookout for a crusader just wearing a cape. And I said, I think he kept on his bat unders and you said,

hope so, don't want people looking up his bat cave. That's a good one. I made me laugh. I liked it. Anyway, if you guys know

a Batman who's missing his clothes, Brian might have the answer. Yeah, I can direct you to the far end of town where that costume probably still isn't hanging on a bus bench. Probably not there now.

Probably not, no. I mean, why wouldn't it? Well, I don't know. I'm trying to think who would get it. It'd either be somebody with a... There's probably some kid goes by. I'm like, oh, Batman costume, fun. I'm going to get it.

Oh, I added Red Fragger. And now they've got gonorrhea. I added Red Fragger by the wrong call. Gosh, thing it. Red Fragger, you'll notice I added you very temporarily to the core group. I did not mean to do that. Oh, great. I've never been invited the core group.

Thanks a lot. Don't worry. I'll probably accidentally do that to everybody at something. point. All right, now she's coming in. We're going to talk books and hang out with Amy a little bit. So let's do that by playing this. Where is it? Here it is. That's right. It's time for read this with Amy. Amy, welcome back. How are you? I'm doing great. How are you guys doing? Real good. We're good. Yeah, real, real good. I'm here. I don't know if you guys, you guys can't see me. Can you? No, we see the spinning discord of video dots.

Spinning dots. Yeah, we see the dots, but we don't see you. All right. Well, dang it. I had a whole thing. Oh, well. Are you wearing a Batman costume? I am not.

I am not. I won't spoil it just in case it ever catches up. But, like, it should be really great because I got fiber installed at my house. I heard. Yeah. I think your camera is just not recognizing your camera, but you guys got fiber and it made me sad because our fiber is still like three blocks away and it's not here yet. It's bastard fiber is available here, but it's something like $280 a month.

I'm sorry, but I cannot justify the cost of that. Oh, wow. Ours was actually cheaper than what I was paying for Stinking Comcast. It was like 80 bucks a month. And I was like, you're kidding. That's less than a no-brainer, buy Comcast, buy. Exactly. Yeah.

No, I wish it was available. Like they basically said, yeah, it's expensive because we've got to connect it. from right across the street where it's hooked up but eventually it will you know be added to your area and then it'll be cheaper it's like great hurry up with that would you yeah oh you had video for a second and then you just went away oh and then it went away did it work yeah yeah i saw her briefly you can send it again see if it works do another call me back all right we're gonna call oh wow okay i'm gonna review oh yeah we can hear you oh wow in all that in the process of getting video we temporary lost her.

Yeah, something happened there. All right, re-adding. Chasing Amy today on TMS. Never seen that movie. Should I see Chasing Amy? Oh, you should. It's one of the better Kevin Smith films, for sure. All right.

I'll have to rectify that. Hello, Amy, you back? Hello? Yeah, this fiber's good. Good new fiber. I don't think it's the fiber. She's got some. No, I think it's, I'm sure it's

it's her camera or something something's interfering yeah she probably got a mic that took over and didn't mean to or something yeah and or earphones and it's like oh you want your output over here do you the windows windows sound set up stuff and the way it works specifically with discord really a pain in the ass it's not fun sometimes i rebooted yesterday after an update to my pc yeah and nothing worked when i just for audio all my audio stuff completely effed when i booted nothing and then uh i had to go reset it all now it's fine and i can reboot and it's fine it's fine i think every time there's an update all my settings go away claire don't yell windows is great it's an inherently wrong statement to make windows 11 is kind of bad it's got problems

all right issues exactly she's just such an apple so quickly on the windows band wagon yeah i'm not I'm not here to convince you all to do OS10 or freaking Macs or anything. I'm not saying that. I'm saying I use Windows for stuff. It's inherently busted with that. Yeah. All right. No Amy yet.

Let's see. We'll try to add her again. Ring, ring ring. Oh, now we're on her phone maybe. Yeah, it's going good. And scene. We've done a show. We're done.

All right. So Amy, you'll join us here momentarily once things have cleared up. For now, we're going to do this. Hey, Brian, it's the news, and it's brought to you by. Brought to you by Coverville today, where you're going to hear a tribute to Olivia Newton-John, who passed away, obviously earlier this week. So you knew this was going to become a tribute show for Olivia Newton-John. Covers by folks like Electric Light Orchestra,

Juliana Hatfield, who recorded an incredible tribute album, a whole full tribute album to Olivia Newton-John, which it was hard for me to pick one song. Scary Pockets, and even some covers by Olivia herself of folks like Mr. Mr. Mr. and Meatloaf. That's right. Olivia Newton-John covered Mr. Mr. and Meatloaf. Find out more today, 1 p.m. Mountain Time at Twitch.tv slash Coverville. I'm excited about which of the two songs she covered from Mr. Mr.

Mr. because that's kind of all they have. Right? Do you want to take you? I'll tell you if you're right or not. I can't remember. Let's see. I mean, the two are. Do you want to know your choices?

Remind me the popular ones. I can't think of their name. Ciri and Broken Wings were the two songs. I'll bet it's that one. Okay. You're wrong. It is broken wings. Take these broken wings.

That poor band. Two songs and you're out. At least they weren't a one-hit wonder. Yeah, they're two hit wonders. That's for you, Mr. Mr. Well done. all right here are our news stories for today

let me get to them here fourth set of human remains found in the drought-stricken Lake Mead near Vegas oh man oh they just wow just keep uncovering more and more it's a gift that just keeps on coming this drought more skeletal remains were found Saturday at a beach in Lake Mead fourth set of remains found on the lake where water levels have dramatically receded in recent years because of a lingering drought park rangers responded to a call about the discovery of the remains on swim beach

I don't know swim beach anymore yeah discovery beach it's the Lake Mead National Recreation area at about 1130 a.m. This was on Saturday according to the National Park Service. They were assisted in their investigation by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department dive team. So they have a dive team on the on the LVPD. Of course they do. The LVPD dive team because, you know, lots of, I bet they probably don't get called to work a whole lot. But this will be handy for Bally's where there's the Bodies Exhibit, and they can just basically take these, every piece of remains they find, just take it over to the Bodies Exhibit.

Is that a permanent insulation over there? Do they always have that? I mean, it's as permanent as anything in Vegas, right? Yeah. I thought that was traveling only. I thought it was like a traveling bodies exhibit that, you know, that comes through Colorado. and Salt Lake City and stuff.

But there's a quote-unquote permanent installation there. Just like there's another good example. That immersive Van Gogh thing that goes all around the country. There's a permanent one, I think, at Area 15. Oh, interesting. Oh, yeah, that's right. I think you even told me that before while we were there. I think you said, yeah, and here's that Van Gogh thing if we ever want to do it.

And it was like, oh, I remember that place being kind of overwhelming, but next time I go back, I want to kind of look at everything there. Yeah. Because that's awesome. There's, uh, so, uh, co-trinette said, isn't that at the Luxor? Brian? Well, there are two competing bodies exhibits in Vegas. Really?

Uh, the one that's just called bodies is at, uh, is at Luxor. And it is a permanent thing. I mean, both of these are permanent installations. Um, but then there's one at Valley's called real bodies. Oh, look at them taking it up a notch. That's right. Oh, you want to go, you'll go to Luxor if you just want to see bodies, but come to valleys if you want to see real bodies.

Well, this real body, they found. They have no other information about this body. They don't know whose it is. But there's some talk. There was some talk in the article. Some thinking that they're worried, the lower they go, the more they're going to find. Because some of these would have settled down low. And when they have like some filtration and some, you know, they pull that water out for you.

because it's a reservoir that there might be a bunch of them bundled up at the like that the input like clogging the filter basically yeah kind of just all laying there I mean clearly clearly there's

they're learning that they're learning that some stuff is in there man like this is gnarly I don't know how old that's what I want to hear is when did these murder when were these guys taken out by the mob or whatever it is. Figure out the date right you should be able to figure out the date based on

And, you know, just, not Gus, whatever Grissom's first name was on CSI. I keep on to say, yes, Grissom, but that was an astronaut. Is it not Gus? Oh, yeah, you're right. Yeah. Hal Grissom? No. We've talking about this other show, and I can't remember what, oh, Gil Grissom.

Gil Grissom. Thank you. Thank you, 11 people in the chat room. Like on the Simpsons. Oh, Gil, you did it again, Gil. Right. Love that guy. Well, anyway, Authority.

They provided nothing else, and Clark County's office and coroner medical examiner would not say anything in a comment. I hope one day we find out what the... I want to find out, is this like from the 60s? Yeah, or is it even earlier than that? Is it like, you know, 30s or 40s and bugsy, knocking off people at the Flamingo. Chojo, aka Sarah in the chat, was saying that they're telling, or they're trying not to panic people by not tying any of this to the mob. but come on they're in barrels they're wrapped up in carpets come on exactly yeah it's uh i saw casino i know how this works i know what's up uh wait casino yeah casino yeah that the one with uh denaro and

yeah denaro and pesci uh-huh that's a good movie sharon stone sharon stone yeah she won an oscar not at least nomination for that she did yeah same year that's that's what i need to watch that one again that i remember being really really good oh yeah casino's awesome It's got, it's got, what's his name? It just died, comedian. Oh. Dick. Oh, comedian.

I thought you were going to say. It's got, doesn't it have Farina, Dennis Farina in it? Yes, Farina is in it, actually. But he has also passed, yeah. Yeah. Who am I thinking of, though? Who's the Canadian, Don Rickles. Oh, yeah, right.

Yeah, and he's kind of a bastard in it. It's really good. Yeah. I got to watch that again. I'm in the mood. Scorsese movies mood right now. Yeah. I can do that.

I want to watch The Departed one more time. All right. Where are we here? Oh, so there's that. Hey, last Sunday, more than 900 U.S. flights got canceled and 6,300 U.S. flights delayed same day. I don't think that's sustainable, by the way. No. No, that's crazy. I'm just going to throw it out there that I think that is highly unsustainable levels of delay and cancellations. And cancellation. My God. Yeah. It's really bad. And also it goes hand in hand with the luggage problem that we talked about. before, I mean, basically this all comes down to understaff issues and that stuff,

which makes me nervous with airplanes. But anyway, I'm curious as to, oh, we do get a, let's see here, American Airlines canceled 4% and then delayed 24% of its Saturday flights. United was 4 and 23%. Delta was 2 and 22%. Yeah. Oh, there we go. 36% of Southwest flights were also delayed on Saturday.

So, okay, Southwest got them beat for delays. Yeah, but nothing about cancellations. Not cancellations. They're hustlers, man. They've got to get it done. Let's see. The total was 6378, so 6,378 flights delayed across the United States just last Sunday. So that's 12% total flights canceled and 40% delayed flights overall.

That's bad. That is bad. Yeah. And it's happening everywhere. like Claire points out in the chat, it's, you know, you hear about this happening in Europe. I mean, there's a, there's a problem. We got to, I'm not saying, you know, flush the airline business with money or something. I don't know what to do to fix it, but that's pretty effed.

I don't know how you function, you know, like, that's just weird. I guess it doesn't affect smaller flights like a quick hour to Vegas or whatever is not as affected by this stuff. I don't know. You'd think, but, you know, I mean, if it's a, if it's not the, they don't have the personnel or the equipment hasn't come across or things like that, then it'll affect the small trips as well as the big trips. Yeah. It's pretty bad.

Saturday had 657 flight cancellations and over 7,000 delays. So I was just, you know, another horrible day. Why wasn't that, I guess, because it was fewer cancellations, but it was way more delays. Yeah. It's a lot. Anyway, I hope none of you were affected by that. I'm sure some of you listening were. Leslie, yeah, Leslie Victorine was in New York this last weekend and came back through Colorado Springs and she got, her flight got canceled and rebooked for the next morning.

So she spent the night here in Colorado Springs, here down south in Colorado Springs. Did you get to see her or anything or just? No, no, no, no. It just didn't work out. Gotcha. All right. Speaking of other things that are annoying, a 200-year-old tree experience. in Portland due to a heat wave, this heat wave we're in right now, exploded.

Like, went, and it did because it was hot and old. Pressure building up inside it from boiling sap or something? Yeah, no, exactly. Wow. During the seven-day heat wave in Portland, a huge branch of an oak tree fell off or broke and fell off on East Meriland neighborhood, taking down power lines with it. It looked like the heat wave may have caused the tree to explode. It's estimated to be over two.

200 years old, was perfectly healthy prior to this. But seven days of a 95 degree temperatures and above probably caused the thing to fall and have it pop. The tree itself, or the branch was estimated to weigh roughly 30,000 effing pounds. Jeez. Is there a picture of this? Please tell me somebody's rain can pick this thing up. No kidding, right? Oh, here's a, they do have video, but it's not of it exploding.

But you can see. Oh, yeah. that, that's gnarly. Oh, they have the aftermath. Let me take a look here. That's big. Update this noon hour on a story. I don't need to hear this lady.

Oh, wow. It's the news. I talk like this. I talk to a guy in the street who saw it happen. Okay, there it is. Oh, that's awesome. It's too bad. Hope nobody got hurt.

Jeez. Yeah. I don't look good. I hate local news. In local news, a tree is exploded after 200 year. ma-ma-mer. All right, final story. I don't know.

I mean, it's like, it's stuff that happens locally. It's not that. It's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not the horror is going on in Washington right now. No, no, no, it's not the subject. It's the, it's the voice. Oh, it's the delivery, it's the, yeah, all news stations do it. They all do it.

They all, I'm down here on sources and something street, and the witnesses have said that they've seen a thing with the brer bra bra bra. Bill back to you. I hate that. You're totally not doing the family guy impersonation of the local news. No, totally not. The Simpsons impersonation of local news. No, I like, I like it, Kent Brockman.

He could be my local news anchor any day. Right, yeah. Fine with me. Final story. Burger King just emailed everybody a blank receipt of a whopper by mistake. I don't know if you got this. Did you get this? I didn't, no.

Because I don't think I've, I don't think I'm on Burger King's like, a preferred burger list or their, you know, their reward deal. I'm not either, but they got everybody got... It would have to be a place I'd like to eat for me to get on their reward deal and maybe hope for a free burger on my birthday. I do like their... I like Woppers, I will admit, to a fan, yeah. Of all the fastest of the foods, like the McDonald's era or a level of food, I like Burger King's Woffer. I used to.

And then the quality just got, like, it's almost like... they rolled it in some sort of industrial flattening machine after they assembled the burger and then they put it in the paper and hand it to you. I used to really like a good Wopper Jr. with cheese, but man, you're right. The quality's gone down. Actually, I feel like it went down and then maybe went back up a little. Give me a Wendy's single. Yeah, I still feel like a good old-fashioned Wendy's single with cheese still does the trick. If I need, if I need something like that, then that's... That's true. They're pretty good. Yeah. Their fries are bad, though. I don't I don't like Wendy's fries.

Yeah. But I don't like Burger King's fries either. They're okay. The newer ones are crispier, I guess. But it feels like they're very artificially crispy. Like, they're using some weird shit to make it crispy. So, yeah. Kind of avoid fries these days anyway.

But anyway, this thing that came in your email would have said, thank you for ordering from Burger King. Your order will be ready to be picked up at Burger King location at and then nothing. Where am I picking up my wopper that I didn't order? Yeah. I'm sure they were just. somebody in IT was testing some mail server stuff and screwed up. Right.

Oops, send all? Reply all. Damn it. Yeah. Probably no one even gets fired for that. It's fine. You don't need to. Yeah, that's minor, right.

It's not like they accidentally did have a, you know, an order. Everybody in their reward system got an order placed. It's like, oh. Yeah. I'll guarantee this. There's a lot worse shit in your inbox right now than a Burger King falls for shit. Yes. Yeah.

So keep that in mind. All right. We're going to take a break. play a song and then come back and we're going to try amy again uh if we get through to amy we'll talk about this book if not we're going to do uh call now that's what we're doing okay all right so stick around one way or the other and uh wendy's not here this week if i haven't made that clear she's uh on some sort of trip so we'll help you with your problems yeah we'll help you with your problems directly on the air uh but only if you play a song do you play one do you

promise i will play a song all right um this is a brand new album by the the new jersey music-based rock band mercy union uh it's called white tiger came out last week and uh and it's really really good this is the first single from it it's called evergreen check it out here is mercy i don't know it's i'm sorry it's called so long siberia because i didn't like evergreen and they gave me a couple choices i like this one a lot better here's the new song from mercy union it's called so long siberia well it's a wild ride when a dong out guns a favorite 10 one wide ride. Can you feel that on the street? Now, honey! Wait, wait, wait for the orders. Fing, fete, fete, patience comes.

Shake, shake down the owner till the vision's gone. High tide, flames the minds are with it. Oh, calls him to Inside, knows it's just a busy one line Only to one man show Hold on tight, baby, don't let go The turn

Wild Rock When a dog out comes They ain't retintful Wild Rock Can feel that on the street Now I'm in My mind takes on the left

Darkness of me Bye-bye To when you You belong to me My love ain't free Skodhead Works to paint the picture They hate the rain

Horse boys Won't you on the future Gotta rain and in Make this glass Spinting in the window Get you nowhere fast Come to favorites and the one Why, why?

You feel that on your street Now I need My mind Takes on a lift the dark This runway Bow, bow to win you belong to me And belong to me

and then we'll want to be push the best of them all of them all. I'm all. Push the buttons with the best of them all. Quite familiar with the feeling for fall In the alleyways and avenues I'm starving here just like you Always hope they stumble into the bar

You in the corner just covered in dark No wind's shake no words we used Tonight erase shot to Wild ride When a dog out comes to pay with anyone While I run And you're feeling on the street Now my head

My mom Tick's on the lip The darkness of the red By-bye When you You belong to me He belonged to me He

You belong to me You belong to me When you were all to me You're all to me The morning There's nothing wrong with the food All right, Brian, tell me who that song was again. That song, again, is Mercy Union from their brand new album, White Tiger.

That is the song So Long, Siberia. And now I want to know what that TikTok. I know, right? playing. I want to know what she looks like because is that her real voice or is she making a thing? You just like your thing. I think it's her. I think it's really

her and she's just walking around talking about stuff she likes and I don't know and I don't know why these things get suggested to me but they're kind of gold so thank you TikTok for your weird algorithm I suppose. I guess it pays to be tracked across all my apps.

All right. We're going to try to call Amy again all right. See if this comes true let's give it a shot their hot new fiber uh always get plenty of fiber i always say hi amy there hi oh work you're back yay yay yeah yeah you're back how you're sorry no you're totally fine that was really weird did you figure out what happened or i have no idea so it's it's it's really strange i have no problem i do discord video calls with the tad pulligans all the time works fine it's It's just this call for some reason, makes everything crash.

I don't know. I don't know what it is, but yeah, there you go. I also, like, it must be said, when I'm doing the tad pulligans, I'm using, this is great for the earlier conversation. I'm using my iPad because I don't care. Like, it's just like a phone call. But for this one, I've got my PC and I got my nice microphone plugged in and all that stuff. And so, yeah, you guys kind of have a point. Something's weird, but you sound good right now.

sound amazing so we're going to be grateful for that yeah that's good all right where the heck were we oh we were going to get a reading recommendation for me because we do read this on thursdays so uh tell us all about what you brought today oh my gosh i could not be more excited about today's book um and so tadpoolers bring me books all the time and i don't want anybody to think i'm ignoring them here's a here's a weird confession i have for you guys because like this is going to be weird from you know the book lady weird confession I read really slowly. Oh.

So like. Well, it's because you keep falling asleep after each sentence. It's true. It's true. So, yeah, I, so I am hearing all of your recommendations and I'm writing them down and I have a list. My TBR list is very, very long. So, but this one came to my attention and I knew I had to, I had to jump on it. So.

Okay. you know, good friend of of the frog pants people, Mr. Brian Brushwood. Shwood, as he's called. Shwoody sometimes. If you're nasty. If any of you guys

follow him on Twitter, you may have seen his tweet thread about his daughter, Penny. Oh, yeah. She is getting ready to go to college. And she is apparently one of the rare

on this earth who knew from the time she was a little kid exactly what she wanted to be when she grew up. I not only admire this about this young woman, but I am envious. I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up, although frankly, I kind of would just prefer not to grow up. You know, I'm doing pretty well with that. I mean, I'm 45.

I'm so far, so good. But anyway, she wanted to do it. to be a writer. And so she is going to school to study writing and she has a little sister. And she wrote published, sorry, wrote illustrated and has now published a book for her little sister. And it is absolutely adorable. It is called Perry Winkle and the Crystal Cave. So I'll go ahead and read a little bit of it for you guys. This is why I was so fresh. with why the video wasn't working because I had a whole thing

like Penny's illustrations are great she's got this really cute little purple dragon I happen to have a very cute purple dragon and shoulder puppet so I was going to do a whole thing with my little shoulder puppet and all of that but are you guys still there? Yeah we're here. Oh my God

do you not hear us? What happened? Oh no, she doesn't hear us. I can't hear us. She can't hear us. We hear you. We hear you. Oh no. I'm talking that and chat. Okay. You guys can hear me. I can't hear you. We jeer oopi. We jeer oopi.

I'll just keep going. I'll keep going with my little reading. And then, yeah, then y'all can hang up on me when I'm done. Okay, thanks. Fair enough. So here's chapter one of Periwinkle and the Crystal Cave. Perry Winkle paced about with the sparkliest and saddest eyes she could muster. But please, could you stay home from work today?

How pretty does my please need to be for you not to go? Her mom swished her tail over to Pat Perry Winkle, but continued packing up her supplies without a second's hesitation. Sorry, Perry. Unfortunately, I have to go to school today, even if you have the day off. There's a lot of stuff I need to get ready. Perry huffed and hid behind her wings, leaving a conspicuous gap so her unbearable pain could still shine through her eyes. A whole day all by herself? But there was absolutely nothing to do. Why did her mom need to leave anyway? She was a magic teacher, yeah, but for other grown-ups, shouldn't they know everything by then? The little dragon must have been lost in thought since her mom's next pet startled her.

You'll be fine. You've got plenty of toys to play with. Yeah, but they're no fun all by myself, Perry said. Then what about all the books? You have more than enough to read. Well, yeah, maybe there were a lot of books everywhere, but they were all boring. Almost every single one. After all, they were most. about magic, which was the boringest thing ever, a universal truth, which had nothing to do with the fact that she was bad at it. She'd do everything exactly perfect for a spell, but then you had to talk to magic with your feelings, and everything sputtered and sparked. She didn't like

talking to anyone that wasn't her mom. Certainly not with her feelings. She grouched and scrunched until her mom began striding towards the door, skittering to keep up. Perry's wines fell on deaf ears as her mom pushed open one of the ornately carved doors and revealed open sky. I love you, Perry, and I'll be back before you know it. Just don't spend the whole day moping around, okay? She said, and with an all too quick flap of her wing,

she was off, leaving Perry absolutely determined to, disobey her instruction. All right. Now what do we do? Yeah, I see. I'll see. How do we do it now? I still can't hear you guys. So I'm just made a fail today.

But there's a reading. And everybody go check out Penny Brushwood, Perry Winkle, and the Crystal Cave. Like, everybody needs to support this because it's adorable. And it's really impressive and cool that she did this herself. And, yeah. So it's available on Amazon and go and buy it and support our friend Shwood and his cool daughter, Penny. Awesome.

I love this. She still can't hear us. And listen, Amy is the complete and total professional, right? Like, not like, oh, I give up. I'm just hanging up. I'm not doing this. Like, she carries on and did it. Even though she couldn't hear us, she's like, all right, I'm going to read this.

And then I'm going to give some information about it. And then I'm going to sign off. Yeah, she did great. she you are the you are the real deal amy yep every time uh well done always good to have amy on we'll try her again next week as well and uh for sure yeah by the way and links to the book and amazon are of course on quicktms dot l i oh very nice all right very cool um okay that's going to do it for that we should open up the phone lines a little here yeah i guess i don't have that ready either here we go oh let's see if people are able to call us oh yeah call now you guys call now

Where's the play? There's the thing here. Call now. Call now. Tell us your questions, your thoughts, your comments. We've got one right here. I hear it called now. Yeah, no kidding. Hi, who's this? This is Jeff. Hello, Jeff. What are you doing? Hey, Jeff. Not too bad. I go under Lawson Beast in the chat. I haven't really chatted too much, but I've been meaning to call you guys for over 10, 11 years now. Oh, my gosh. Wow. Long time coming. Glad you finally got through. Where do you hail from? Where are you at? Well, I'm in Lincoln, Nebraska. So back in 2011. I started listening to your podcast. Really enjoyed it.

Thank you very much. Then in 2013, I got an opportunity to go out to Utah, and I moved to South Jordan, Utah. No way. Wow. That's where I am. And then I started leaving stuff on your doorstep, Scott. Yeah.

I knew that. I had time going out there, so I worked for a food company out there for about three years, and I lived at the crossing of daybreak. right down the street from the break and everything like that. No way, dude. I walk over, I walk there like twice a week. It's like a block and a half from me is all. You're just like right there.

I've got my own pictures of Mendoza. I know exactly what Goosey you're talking about. That's awesome. We haven't seen him in, well, about two years or so. He disappeared. I don't know if he died or where all the ducks went with him or I don't know what happened there, but

he's not around anymore. I was out there through 2015. and I woulda, coulda, should have the nerdtacular up at Snowbird. One of the Snowbird plenty of times, but missed the Nurtacular. But, yeah, I kind of cyber-stopped you a little bit, going off of Twitter, some pictures trying to figure out where you lived, and, hey, I'm going to walk by someday and just say hi or whatnot. Oh, man, I'm sad. We never made that happen.

We could have totally done that. There's a few like you. There's listeners kind of up and down Sotom over there that once in a while will say, hey, I live over here. We should hang out. And I just never see these people. Once in a while, one of them will say, hey, I think I saw you with your dog this morning. And then that's the only contact we'll have.

But, yeah, so you're back in Nebraska now? Back in Nebraska. So, yeah, I worked for the food company. I'm very familiar with, like, the Popeye situations over the years. You guys talking about the food business a little bit and wanted to entertain that a little bit. But I'm actually originally from Wisconsin, so Brian, you know, Summerfest in Milwaukee. Yeah. That is an awesome time.

The last time out there was in 95 when I saw Bill Cosby. yeah wow yeah it was great for time but I expect and then actually at the Papsu Ribbon Ribbon Free stage

was Carlos Santana playing very familiar with the bar there downtown shoots oh the the code

the secret bar the spy one yeah there's a spy bar that sounds cool that's the one I talked about on the show was it something to do with weird neighbor or crazy neighbor no no we went there we we were told about

this place and you have to go in through a a secret door that looks like an importer exporter oh no no it's this oh no we got it this thing if other people call now it has call waiting basically it didn't used to have that feature and i get why someone might want that feature but f that feature it rings and makes sounds and i can't turn it off and anyway it's annoying sorry uh you Oh, yeah. So anyway, it's just a really cool spy bar that you go into and you, you've got safe house. That's what it's called. And you go in there and you kind of, it's almost like a, almost like an escape room except you're trying to get in and trying to complete a mission. And the food's good. I mean, it's bar food, but it's good bar food. And, uh, I love bar. Yeah, it was a blast. That place was totally cool. We went in Chicago as well because it was so cool. Well, you should see. So if you were here in 2015, you should see this area now like yeah like I'm trying to think if you're on that side of soda row that used to be you could look out there and see forever the the island was empty it's now full of like three million dollar homes every two feet it's insane like that whole

place is exploded Google Street view every now and then the wife and I all check in on that every six months or so and it is going crazy it's nuts I don't know why I don't know I don't get it I know there was a housing boom but my gosh it it's insane and it made my value go up so I guess I can't complain too much. Well, it's good to hear from you, man. If you're ever out this way again for any reason, we should hang out, have lunch or something. Absolutely. Well, it's great to talk to you guys, and thank you very much for all you done.

I've gone under the Patreon and follow Justin Robert Young and all the different podcasts you guys have done with Frog fans. Oh, that's great. Glad to have you here, man. Glad to have you as part of it. We'll see you soon. Thanks, man. If you'd like to call in and be a part of today's discussion, be like Nebraska.

call in okay you can call now 8-014710462 looks like we got another caller it's fine who this is hi who's this I tell you well hello Talia what you what's going on our favorite Canadian transplant up there from I can't remember why why did you go up to Canada I don't remember what was the deal was it a work thing was it like I just like I got to get out of America like what happened would you do yes all of that well okay all right then and the weed they have good weed just kidding i don't want to cast dispersions on your weed use um i would love it if you know everybody had freeway it's copious and frequent though yeah it's all over the place um well all right it's good to have you here as always talia what's on your mind what's going

on i want to talk about your damn dreams okay let's do it okay unlock that door what do we got do you know what dreaming actually is uh no but you're you've got like experience uh phd experience in like neuroscience so I have a feeling you do so tell me okay well the thing is we don't really know a lot about dream first of all dreaming is a rapid eye movement called REM sleep or paradoxical sleep yeah because your brain's actually extremely active uh during that time but you tend to only so you go through stages of sleep you go through one two three four and then three, four, two, one. You do that, and then you hit REM sleep.

And then as the night goes on, you spend more and more time in REM sleep. And that's actually why, when you wake up and you go back to bed and you go, you know, resume your dream, that's called REM rebound, because it's basically resuming where you left off. Okay. And that happens more toward the morning. But anyway, the current theory is that dreams are basically housekeeping. I mean, I like, sleep is basically housekeeping. Your cellular processes generate a ton of waste, and then when you go to sleep, you've got to take the trash out.

And that's why you get, you know, as you go on, you get tired, you start making more mistakes because you're just literally not functioning as well. Yeah. Now, what we don't know is why we see random, you know, images and stuff like that. it's you know as to why the memory like why is it replaying this so the idea is this is where we get into speculation

is that it has to replay your memories basically to make them stronger and so it's called reverberation theory where you basically you remember something you have to basically store it back into memory and if you don't you lose the memory

permanently like that's it you're done it'll never come back? Either. Well, so basically, so like when you open, say you open up an Excel file and then you make changes,

you hit say. That's basically what you're doing with a memory. You open up a memory, you make changes, oh, it was blue instead of purple, and then you save it again, and then you remember that.

Okay. Ideally, this always works, and, you know, you have good memories, but, you know, it's another topic, but you could actually interrupt that process and cause people to forget things, But that's very experimental and very ethically messed up.

Sure. Yeah, that would make sense. So anyway, bringing it back to why are you seeing like, you know, Brian without a head or something like that? Yeah. So it takes neurons as like, you know, a trail of gunpowder. And if you ignite a trail of gunpowder, you're going to activate the neurons you want.

But maybe the heat, you know, triggers something else. And you get a little bit of a side process that goes. So you remember Brian, but then you remember, oh, but Brian was sitting in a chair, and I only saw his head in the display on my thing. And so then it'll basically just be a random representation of whatever you thought that needs to get remembered. But basically think of dreams as meaningful things that happen to you, but represented in a meaningless way. Oh, I see what you're saying. So like the ingredients, it's like ingredients that I would know in, let's say you're cooking.

You're like, okay, I know what cocoa puffs are. I know what butter is and I know what broccoli is. But putting it all in a bowl and making a dish out of it is nonsense. Like who would do that? So your brain's kind of doing that. Taking ingredients you know, but shuffling it in ways that make no sense to your head. Pretty much, yeah. So it's just like, you know, if you have a very strong memory of an apple being red,

then you would have, you know, it would trigger the word red. And then you think of other things you know that are red. so you maybe you briefly thought oh apples read like a fire truck then you have a dream about a fire truck for that split second thought you had oh all right so when i have a dream like i had one the other day i didn't talk about on the show but i had one where i was on a highway and i was running late for something and i realized as i was driving that i was going the wrong direction so i had to stop the car and look for like a u-turn spot on the highway and i found one but it was also 10 feet underwater to drive things through this thing. It made sense in the dream. It doesn't now. Sure. But I had to do that somehow. So because I saw cars just drowning in front of me, I'm like, well, this isn't going to work. So I'm just going to get out of my car and walk the rest of the way. But then I got halfway through the walk and went, wait, this is too long to walk. I need a car to get where I'm going to be there on time. I better turn around and go back to the car. You know, like it was this horrible loop of frustration

and I'm late. And none of this is working out. like compounding issues with me trying to get where I'm going. I don't know what all that started from. I guess I have a car. I know what a highway is. And there's my dream, right? Like, why do some people get that mismash and other people don't? Well, it depends on sleep quality and a lot of other things.

Like, you probably, you know, you go to bed at a regular time mostly. Pretty consistent, yeah. You probably have weirder dreams when you stay up late because your rim rebound is messed up. but um like you know so that's important no but before we get past that too far that's an important factor here is people if you're if you're on a regular sleep diet for lack of a better term that you're going to what would they call it yeah so you're going to have you do that you're going to have a better night's sleep which means you're going to have a more uniform sort of pattern every day right and more consistent memories because like you know once you like some people don't

dream and you know they just don't go into REM sleep and that they might still get the full amount of sleep that they need but so we don't understand it that well but it's you know basically it's housekeeping and you know it picks up you know a random thought you had today like say you've thought of Kevin Costner and then you thought of water world and things being underwater combined that with anxiety about being on time or something and you've got your weird dream yeah good point I didn't I never looked it that way. Hmm. I was thinking of Waterworld, by the way, because before that dream, there was some

rumored announcement. IMPB has a listing for a Waterworld review, and there's no info, but I never get all excited about it, but I probably locked in on it a little bit. And then... Yeah, and it can be unconscious things, too, because it might not be powerful enough to even register in your working memory. It's, you know, there's a lot of cellular processes that still go on that we are just never conscious of.

Right, we don't, yeah. Plus, we're, like you keep saying, we're sort of to the cusp of just starting to understand how this stuff works. That's fascinating. So, I mean, for some people, you could probably find some meaning because, you know, we can tie it back to their life, you know, you know, for you, it's anxiety and, you know, just association with Kevin Costner or something. Right.

But, but that's you. I mean, for some people, it might, they might not care as much, so they have different, so maybe their dreams are more random and they have less meaning or it could be someone like me who smokes so much pot I don't dream anymore and there's nothing there is that the deal is that the oh yeah you'd said this one other time I wanted to ask you about that pot supposedly slows or you you don't dream or something it suppresses REM sleep so you still sleep but you spend more time in like deep sleep stage four stuff um well that seems bad and bad They're unhealthy in the long term, doesn't it?

Well, I mean, like, hey, there's the idea that it affects your long-term memories. So maybe, you know, in a few years, I'll know why and forget why. Well, I hope you don't. That's what, I hope that doesn't happen to you. I didn't realize that. It's suppressed REM sleep. And REM sleep's important. So don't be doing pot at night, I guess, everybody.

I don't know. A lot of people turn to it for sleep, though, right? It's like a thing. Yeah, exactly. So that's why it's paradoxical and weird sometimes. And it's not required for you to remember stuff. But current theory is that it's helpful. Interesting.

Okay. Well, there you go. So, hey, Colorado, freaking Oregon, California. Who else has legal weed? Nevada. Be careful. That's all I'm saying. Well, this has been great.

It's always fun to talk to you, Talley. I hope you're doing good. And I wanted to say this about her. She always remembers, always knows what. songs I'm playing before the show if they're tied to a video game. Identifies what video game or A hundred percent of the time.

Yeah. Which, oh, turn that off, hate that. What that tells me is that Talley's, you got it all, you got the long-term memory fine. Your weed's not killing you. You're doing good. Keep that weed up.

You know, that's what we're saying. You just smoking up you and absorb it and become the weed. It becomes you. You become the weed. Become the weed. Yeah, you become legal. Where does the weed end and tally begin? Yeah, nobody knows anymore.

I have the haze. That's awesome. All right, have a fantastic one. We'll see you next time. All right, that's about going to do it for calls. Looks like we got a couple of emails, though, here. Well, let's read those. I'm going to read them, Brian.

Here's how I do those now. Send and receive email. These came to us at the morning stream at g-emel.com. Brian Hartzell wrote in and said, hey, sear and burn. Oh, okay. This is about heat stroke. He says, I have a job that is hard as hell, and I know firsthand the effects of heat.

I started three weeks ago at an aluminum extrusion plant. I'd like to say aluminum. Sure. Who doesn't? As a hydraulic maintenance mechanic, I work on near 1,000-degree forges. The better part of my first two weeks were spent being so close to passing out or puking

and a couple of times, or a bunch of times, actually puking. Oh, geez. Well, yeah, there goes your record. Anyway, I really don't think I could actually keep doing the job, but by the end of the second, week I had kind of acclimated to the heat. It is usually 130 plus degrees inside in most places I have to work. On a side note, I used to be an IT guy for Blizzard. So this is a change. Sorry for

rambling on ha ha. That's kind of funny. Yes. Yeah. Blizzard from from Blizzard to excessive heat. You probably have some rules there, like some hydration rules. Like they tell you to turn constantly. And, you know, I don't know how you have to dress in there. You're not all like. I'm guessing that you've got a Right. You've got to have specific things you can't even have near, like on you at work. I don't know if your phone would be damaged by 130 plus degree heat or... Got to think it would, right? Like can't be good for a phone. Yeah. Like certain clothing materials can't be that good in excessive heat. That's crazy. I was using my phone in 100 degrees once out in the backyard and it said, it gave me a message says,

it's too hot to operate your phone safely. Turn it down, off for now and use it later. Right. And then there's a little button that says, unless this is an emergency or something. Yeah. I'd never gotten that message before. I guess my TikToks can wait. Yeah. Yeah, I can watch this lady tell me about her amazing ice cream. Her cool ranched aren't aren't later. Yeah, it doesn't have to be now. Speaking of panic stuff, this game from Andrew from... Canada. He's from Canada.

He says, Hey, Scott and Brian. I have been a fan of TMS for a few years now and I always the best part of my day when a new episode is on the feet. I just wanted to comment on Scott's story on panic attacks just to say it's nice to hear others' experiences with having them. For about the last five years, I've had random panic attacks with very similar symptoms and fears that it is something a lot worse. I've ended up in the ER a couple of times and was just told that it was anxiety and it will pass. Sorry, and it will pass from the doctors. It is nice hearing. Wow, that's irresponsible of the doctors it feels like. Well, I mean, if they're an ER doctor's job is to,

process you you know yeah they're not going to sit down and really go deep so yeah okay that's been my experience as well anyway it is nice hearing how others have similar things and how you handle them keep up the great work in the show andrew from Canada well Andrew um yeah it does help to hear from people who uh have been through it somebody asked me yesterday after the show i don't remember where i got this an email or something said um how does this apply to like either being on the show every day or doing other things in public and they brought up my the stage gig at blizzcon that year in 2018 and that's the weird part about all of this i don't get panic attacks for things that should panic me like for me to get up on stage in front of 30,000 people was 100% chill i had

no problem that day zero and i wasn't like drugged up or anything i didn't have anything i just went up there and i did it and i wasn't nervous and i didn't freak out and it was fine you'd think that would be a trigger, right? Like the ultimate trigger. But it wasn't. Ultimate trigger sometimes is just me sitting on a chair, listening to the birds chirp, and then bam and hitch it.

Like it doesn't have, that's why it's weird. It doesn't have the normal rules. Not tied to what we would expect to cause them. Yeah. So, you know, sometimes you can, and that's not to say people out there aren't properly triggered by things like,

and they should, you know, that's normal. Sure. But the fight or flight thing shouldn't happen when you're just chilling and it does to those who know what I'm talking about so hey Andrew I feel you I feel you dude hey later today we got shows coverville as mentioned

earlier 1 o'clock today so get that's right thank you very much Scott you got the time right yeah 1 p.m. twitch tv slash coverville Olivia Newton John yeah please Mr. Please yeah I don't have a good cover of that song by the way so if you're tuning in looking for please Mr. Please

or let me be there those just got two country and so only country artists covered them and they just kept pretty straightforward covers so it's like it's a bummer because those were two really great songs that she did but they were

you know they only seemed to get covered in certain in certain genres oh damn right they'll be a hopelessly devoted to you they'll be a have you never been mellow physical of course It's magic.

Magic. You're the one that I want. You'll have a couple of Greece songs in there for sure. Yeah, it'll be great. It'll be good. Check it out. Eve there. 1 p.m.

No 1.30. Who made that up? No 1.30. No one made that up. You made that up. I made that up. It's gone now. No, I think at one point I think I was doing them at 1.30 or 2.30 or something.

No, for whatever reason I bring glommed onto it and never let go. I don't know why. Not enough for M. Sleep. All right. Also, core tonight, 5 p.m. Mountain Time. Me, John Bo, doing our thing. If you haven't yet checked out Carter's cool animation of us talking about John's skill for tongue twisters, you're going to want to check that out because it's awesome. We'll probably premiere it again tonight before the show. So if you

want to see it, you can, it's awesome. And also, we have lots to talk about. So tune in, core, covering video games in a way that you don't have to. All right. That's it. Patreon.com slash TMS is how this show is supported, and you can find links to it and all the things we do at frogpants.com slash TMS. Brian, I think that'll do it for us today. Do you have a song we can play to call it, you know, finished, I guess? To really just put a pin in it and call it over and done. Yeah, Scott Taskinen wrote in and said, good morning, great covermaster, August 12th, which is tomorrow. I turn 40 years old. This year, I want a reminder of all the good years I had. Well, hopefully you've got more in front of you, too.

Could you play a cover of Frank Sinatra's very good year? Thank you for the laughs. And remember to watch that horn or you'll yell. Oh, he wants that. Hold on. Yeah. I get it. That's a good reference.

It took me a second. It is. There it is. Enjoy. I love that. It's still a favorite of mine. Still good. All right.

Well, first, a little clarification. And this is something that I didn't discover until doing coverville. I was attributed that to being a Frank Sinatra original as well. When I was 17, it was a very. good year because that's who you always think of singing it originally though it was the kingston trio of all people uh frank sinatra covered it and kind of made it his own that is uh some trivia for you right there i've got a great cover though by the b e f this is from their 2013 album music of quality and distinction volume three and it really is it is it was a very good year by b e f

When I was 17 It was a very good year It was a very good year For small town girls And soft summer nights We'd hide from the lights I'm the village green When I was 17

When I was 21, it was a very good year, it was a very good year for city girls who led up the stairs with all their perfumed hair. it came undone when I was 21 When I was 35 good year it was a very good year

for blue-blooded girls of independent me we'd ride in limousines their chauffeurs were dry when I was 35

But now the days But now the days are short I'm in the autumn of the year And now I think of my life life is vintage wine from fine old caves. From the brim to the draught. It poured sweet and clear. It was a very good year. It was a very good year. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Frog Pants Network.

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